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WELCOME!
I have exciting news about my next book - and it won't be long until I can share it officially!
For now here's a snapshot of what I've been doing for the last 20 years: writing biographies, some about people you’ll know (Milton, Ralegh and Shakespeare) , others about people you may not know - yet. I’m especially proud of my feisty, feminist and accessible accounts of female creatives: my most influential book, Sounds and Sweet Airs: The Forgotten Women of Classical Music (2016) and my most recent, Eve Bites Back: An Alternative History of English Literature (2022).
A long-time Oxford resident, I've held various posts at the University including Director of the Creative Writing MSt, and remain a Visiting Fellow at Kellogg College.
Photo: John Cairns

MENTORING
Are you looking for a writing mentor?
Whatever you are working on, from memoir to poetry, screenplays to biography, Oxford Writing Mentors support writers at all stages of their career.
If you'd like to talk about working with me, drop me a line and we can explore how I might be able to help you take your writing to the next level.
Through Oxford Writing Mentors I also have an online course available here. If you're interested in this course, feel free to contact me directly at the email below and I can offer you a discount code!
My writing has significantly developed with Anna as a mentor. She is experienced and knowledgeable about all aspects of literary structure and the publishing process [...] Her encouragement and insight into my work has been invaluable in developing my authentic voice, and boosting my creative writing practice. (NE)
Being mentored by Anna has been the best present I could have given my writing self [...] Anna’s commitment and belief in me and my subject has encouraged me to find my voice and to write confidently - and importantly, to call myself a writer. (JPF)
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LATEST MEDIA

BBC Sounds - Short History Of... Walter Raleigh
BBC Podcast available to listen on BBC iPlayer and Apple Podcasts.

Fanny: The Other Mendelssohn
Documentary Directed by the unheralded composer’s great great great granddaughter. Dartmouth Films

Unputdownable, game-changing crime fiction
The best books of unputdownable, game-changing crime fiction from the Queens of Pulp. View on Shepherd.
